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Allow Instana agent sending metrics to both Instana backend and our streaming layer, e.g. Kafka

We propose that the Instana agent should be capable of transmitting metrics not only to the Instana backend but also to our streaming layer, specifically Kafka. This dual transmission capability will enhance our data processing and analytics capab...
8 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

End to end transaction journey monitoring.

Multiple banking customers have been asking for end-to-end journey mapping across their payment ecosystem. Their main requirement is to be able to stitch a single business journey across multiple hops, each of which uses a different identifier. Ex...
8 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

Feature Request: Saved Time Ranges

We would like to request a new feature: the ability to save and name custom time ranges. Currently, when we investigate an incident, we have to manually re-select the exact time frame every time. It is also difficult to share this specific time wi...
15 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Custom Dashborads - Axis and Widget legend display

Hi team, please allow the possibility to format the y-Axis, so it displays more values (not just the upper value). Regarding the Legends, in some cases they are displayed perfectly, but sometimes, when there are many metrics displayed, or few metr...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Request to Enable Retrieval and Display of Metrics Equivalent to Navigator for i

For users who integrate IBM i with other systems, relying solely on Navigator for i for IBM i operations is inefficient.Meanwhile, the metrics that can be retrieved via Instana for IBM i are fewer than those available through Navigator for i, whic...
24 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Add hours to SLO Objective lenght

We have a KPI that monitors the login failures and we need to define a SLO between 8 AM and 10PM, but with the current length options we cant do that. If its possible we would like to have the option to select specific dates that reoccur every day...
4 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 1 Needs more information

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